No offense, but these "which route for award travel" threads are a waste of time, imho, because you call up AA and inevitably they tell you that, based on availability for the dates you want to travel, you have one choice, take it or leave it. So you can spend a lot of time mapping out and ranking the theoretical options, or you can call AA and see if you even are gonna be offered a choice. And if you are pleasantly surprised when they do offer you a choice, pick the one that sounds the best, put it on hold, and then post back here and we can have a far more productive debate about the choices you've been offered. Just my two cents.